Well-BEEing - Ecosystemic practices for youth mental wellness

Living in an era where the health crisis, isolation and individualism not only affects our bodies, but also our cultures and planet Earth, we recognize the urgency of addressing mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being through an educational-experiential approach.

The purpose is to create a space of well-being and personal growth that strengthens social connections as a source of health and community transformation for social change. The project is based on the systemic vision and the power of collective intelligence, recognizing the interconnection between personal and community well-being.

The training course focuses on promoting emotional health, communication, conflict transformation and stress management, both individually and collectively. We will explore with great curiosity the different archetypes that live within us and in our networks to promote the authentic expression of each person as part of community development. Within the concept of learning by doing, we will create a safe, open and interactive learning environments using methods as embodiment practices, storytelling, nature-based experiences, social theatre with systemic views, creative expression, sound work, movement and more.

Who is it for? 

It has been designed for trainers, educators, facilitators, leaders, volunteers and professionals that are active in the youth field at local, national or international level and are willing to develop their competences and skills through this intercultural collective experience. Applicants must be living in any of the following countries: France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland and Spain.

We welcome the participants to share their knowledge, skills, experience and tools contributing actively to the programme by exchanging and sharing while learning from others and from themselves, including self-reflection along the process. So this IS FOR YOU if you WANT TO:

• Get to explore well-being, cooperation and conflict transformation in a context of social action towards community development
• Learn by the experience, developing skills and gathering tools for your professional and  personal life
• Be curious to explore creativity, community and nature as sources of growth, and be open to go through a process of self-learning and reflection within yourself and others
• Move, hike, be outdoors, be indoors, travel within… open yourself to the methodology and the  transformative process
• Be an active bee of the group, actively sharing your own resources, caring and participating in cocreating a well-being and learning space
• Engage fully with the project, including dissemination and follow-up, becoming an active agent of social change creating impact through your learning experience
• Connect and develop new networks and inspiring contacts in a multicultural environment, as a base for future projects and cooperation

*Participants must be over 18 and be able to communicate in English, so they can participate fully in the program.

The team

Yolanda B. Miranda: educational designer, movement therapist, project coordinator and group facilitator in the fields of personal growth and well-being. Creating from a systemic view with emotions as a key and facilitating within somatics, art tools, nature-based experiences, neurology, embodied practices, storytelling, creative thinking, theatre and playfulness.

Antonio Martín: facilitator in the fields of social and systemic theater, nonviolent communication and transformation of human conflict. Working from an holistic approach, embracing deep ecology, conflict transformation, human well-being (yoga, meditation, therapeutic work with sounds...), shadow inquiry work and systemic approach.

Laura Barranco: social educator, project designer, conflict mediator and coordinator of rural development and community projects with a focus on interculturality values Working with different association collaboratively on c.reating spaces for coexistence and awareness-raising  promoting local initiatives and innovation for social change.